User Moderation Policy Explained

As a community we need to commit to self-moderate. Trolls and shitposters often take advantage of the free speech environment afforded by minimal moderation to brigade us with troll attempts and shitposts. Harassing with shitpost brigades was (and is) one of the techniques employed by SRS on that other site. Our policy is not to delete these posts or ban these users, so we need the rest of the users to use their votes. Trolls will get tired if the only response they receive in here is downvotes. So sort by "New" and downvote all the troll and shitpost threads, then sort by "Hot" to browse the sub. Important threads will always be stickied

Adspam, Copypasta (duplicate posts and/or duplicate comments within the same thread), Dox, and Porn (exposed breasts/genitalia/anus/explicit sex acts) will be removed by the mod team. We will also remove posts that hijack web browsers in any way.

This sub is for documenting the attempts to drag Voat down into the mud by various censorship, advertising or shilling groups. One of our main goals is preventing the spread of PC-Driven Censorship to Voat. We watched self-righteous elitist powermods destroy the free speech environment that once existed on reddit. We will not allow that to happen to Voat.

The primary way to defend our free speech platform is to confront censorship when we see it.

If you feel you have been the victim of censorship, try PMing the mod to see if it was a misunderstanding of some kind. If this does not work, make a thread in here. Provide a link to the thread or relevant modlog. Ping the offending mod in a comment stating the issue. We will do everything we can to resolve the issue.

Most of the time, the bots just post their insane rubbish, rarely does whoever controls these bots actually use them to post coherent responses to people and by that I mean replying to comments with a sentence that makes sense. BUT, when they do, they do it to try and play off that they aren't bots or that the only way people (like myself) can track them is because I have a magical list of IP's associated with them or somesuch nonsense. It's pretty easy to spot these bots, no need for tech wizardry, version 1.0 eyeball is all that's needed.

The list of bots associated with this user:

https://voat.co/user/Jem777 and https://voat.co/u/mej777 < Appears to be real accounts, but there's always one of the other bots welcoming him back whenever he posts in a thread. And many of them seem to ping him whenever a certain buzzword is said ( not sure about that list ).

Same naming schemes for most of them. Most of them have been shitposting in v/pizzagate, v/politics, v/news, more and more non-sensical garbage like this. Many of them also occasionally post a random comment alerting some random list of users. My guess is they are clearly trying to forum slide here now, with this Hollywood shit going on. Anyway, downvote any nonsensical posts or comments like that on sight if you want the spam ended.

Just like like last time, many of the bots on the list will reply short comments in the posts made by other bots making it pretty simple to spot if a post is made by these punks. Just parse a username with the list. They seem to be using all the same 10-12 month old accounts as they did back in 2017 during the Vegas shooting.